Collaborate Disseminate
As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century …read more Continue reading Keep That Old Radio Alive With An ESP32
[The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of radio that was purely mechanical. We aren’t sure we …read more Continue reading A Mechanical Radio, Sort Of
It is often helpful to think of a radio as a series of interconnected functional blocks—hence the use of block diagrams to convey how a given radio operates. [Julian Haag] …read more Continue reading SDR– Lets You Patch Together Your Setup
These days, it’s possible to cram a whole lot of radio functionality into a very compact device. A great example of that is the LakeShark scanner from [SAMS0N1TE]. The LakeShark …read more Continue reading Handheld Scanner is a Radio Multi-tool
Old-school teletext with its pixelated text and block graphics may now be largely a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s without enthusiasts or there’s no more life …read more Continue reading It’s Teletext, But On The Radio
Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I …read more Continue reading BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp
There are plenty of radios you can buy that pick up MW and SW bands if that’s what you’re into. Or, you can follow [mircemk]’s example, and whip one up …read more Continue reading DIY SI5351 Radio Tunes In SW, MW, And More
If you work with radio, the chances are that before too long you’ll be winding an inductor. At radio frequencies these won’t be big chunky transformer style chokes, but often …read more Continue reading Mechanical Stability For Your Coils
Although the CRT has largely disappeared from our everyday lives, there was a decades-long timeframe when this was effectively the only display available. It’s an analog display for an analog …read more Continue reading Analog Video From an 8-Bit Microcontroller
Although we do often see projects that take antiques and replace some or all of their components with modern equipment, we can also sympathize with the view that (when possible …read more Continue reading Restoring the Soul of a 1940s Radio